Night Inn

Night Inn (Chinese: 夜店; pinyin: Yè Diǎn) is a Chinese black-and-white film released in 1947, directed by Huang Zuolin and starring the popular Shanghai singer Zhou Xuan.

Night Inn
Directed byHuang Zuolin
Written byKe Ling
StarringZhou Xuan
Production
company
Release date
  • 1947 (1947)
LanguageChinese (Mandarin)

The film is based on the Chinese theatrical adaptation of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths by playwright Ke Ling. The play and the film were both banned in China during the Cultural Revolution but were popular in the post-Mao period.[1]

References

  1. Pickowicz, P.G. (1993) 'Sinifying and Popularizing Foreign Culture: From Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths to Huang Zuolin's Ye dian', Modern Chinese Literature vol.7


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